Motivational Quotes

Fear

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley

A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Steve Jobs

That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Fear is the mind killer

Herbert, Frank

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Nixon, Patricia

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Dworkin, Andrea

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If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Bell, James F.

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Susan Jeffers

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaton

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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Northcote, James

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Anderson, Marian

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.